Clinico-radiological profile of COVID-19 in Kashmiri population: A descriptive study.

Aim: The purpose of our study was to assess the presentation of COVID-19 disease in terms of clinical and radiological features in our population.

Methods: 64 RT-PCR documented COVID-19 patients were included in the study. Clinical, biochemical, and radiological data were collected and analyzed retrospectively from last week of March to 30 April 2020.

Comparative study of emphysematous pyelonephritis and pyelonephritis in type 2 diabetes: a single-centre experience.

Purpose: Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) have severe complications and high morbidity with poor prognosis as compared to Pyelonephritis. The aim was to study clinical features, microbiological profile, complications of EPN and pyelonephritis in T2D patients.

Methods: This was a hospital-based prospective study done on 200 T2D patients with upper UTI.

Rapid drug-susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates to first-line antitubercular drugs by nitrate reductase assay: A comparison with proportion method.

Objective/background: Early initiation of therapy in patients with tuberculosis is imperative for its control. Conventional methods of susceptibility testing such as the proportion method (PM) require visual detection and counting of colonies that takes up to 6weeks. Rapid and simple phenotypic methods that have been endorsed by the World Health Organization can serve as alternatives.